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All You Need to Know - VVPAT (Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trail)

VOTER-VERIFIED PAPER AUDIT TRAIL (VVPAT)

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Introduction:

Voter-Verified Paper Audit
Trail (VVPAT) is a fetterless verification system which
provides recompose to the voters using a ballot less voting system which is
implanted in voting machines designed to detect any possible election fraud or
malfunction. For the very first time in Uttar Pradesh, a voter-verified paper
audit trail (VVPAT) has been introduced by the

Election Commission, which would
be used in polling booths in Allahabad district for the upcoming assembly
polls.

VVPAT
is a process of providing recompose to voters. It’s completely an uncommitted
verification system. For those uninitiated, VVPAT is a printer-like machine
attached to every EVM that allows voters to verify that their vote has been
cast correctly. Once a voter printing house button of his choice in the Electronic
Voting Machine a printed paper occur containing the name of the candidate and
poll symbol so that he can confirm it. After the voter views the receipt it
goes inside a container linked to the EVM, which can be accessed only by the
polling officers. This latest system is one step further towards saving of
electoral fraud.

About VVPAT Machines:

The
Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail is a method that provides feedback to voters.
It is an uncommitted verification printer machine and is attached to electronic
voting machines. It allows voters to verify if their vote has gone to the meant
candidate.

Application of VVPAT
Machines:

When
a voter presses a button in the EVM, a paper slip is printed through the VVPAT.

The
slip contains the poll symbol and name of the candidate.

It
allows the voter to verify his/her choice.

After
being visible to the voter from a glass case in the machine for 7 seconds;

The
ballot slip will be cut and dropped into the drop box in the machine and a beep
will be heard.

VVPAT
machines can be accessed by polling officers only.

Use
of entourage -based optical scan or mark-sense tabulators instead of DREs; In
this simple and cost-effective system, voters fill out paper ballots which are
then counted electronically by a tabulator at the precinct, similar to the
technology used to score standardized tests. Optical scan machines have been in
use for decades, and provide a voter-verified audit trail by default.
Tabulators can detect over votes at the poll so that the voter can be given the
opportunity to correct a spoiled ballot.

Future plan for use of VVPAT
System:

Going
by the overall positive feedback from the voters, the election commission is
now keen on increasing the usage of VVPAT devices in the forthcoming assembly
elections. The device is worthy only with those Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) tooled after 2006. The commission
is indicated trying to achieve “all India VVPAT coverage” by 2019 elections.